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Spring 2027 Legal Intern, Voting Rights Project
ACLU - Internships
Hybrid-New York City or Washington D.C.
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About the Role
The ACLU seeks a Spring
Legal
Intern in the Voting Rights Project of the ACLU’s National office in New York City or Washington D.C.
This position may be remote or hybrid. This internship is course credit only.
Qualifying applicants must currently be matriculated legal students and must be based in the U.S. for the entire duration of the internship.
The Team:
The ACLU Voting Rights Project was established in 1965 – the same year that the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) was enacted – and has litigated more than 400 cases since that time. Its mission is to build and defend an accessible, inclusive, and equitable democracy free from racial discrimination. We have three guiding principles: (1) all Americans should be eligible to vote; (2) voting should be free and easy; and (3) all people should count equally.
The Project is litigation-focused, with active cases across the country, though it helps support legislative advocacy work and public education. The Voting Rights Project’s recent docket has included more than 40 lawsuits to protect voters during the 2020 and 2024 elections; a pair of recent cases in the Supreme Court challenging the last administration’s discriminatory census policies: